NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (27W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GS

0.038 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM +531%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GS

VS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 8

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

4.320 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

38.08 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

47W

TDP

27W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Khalidster

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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